The Blue Cliff Record, Case 30
Joshu's "Giant Radishes"

The Main Case

Verse

"Ch'in province produces a giant radish."
Zennists everywhere take an example.
If you only know the perennial,
How can you distinguish the white of the swan and the black of the crow?
Thief, thief! He snatched a zennist's nostrils.

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